I too am curious about the price drop. Normally whenever there is major news that effects the price majorly, there are thousands of links circulating to media announcements. I can't seem to find any besides the coindesk article which everyone keeps referencing.

It may just be me hoping that BTC goes back up, but I'm thinking that there is some major price manipulation going on by someone who knows how to spark panic. Same with then China said that Bitcoins weren't currency, people got all panicky and then the price went back up.

I too am interested, however I am quite weary. Even early Bitcoin Asic companies did not have much luck, and the theory behind mining a SHA based coin with an Asic device is far less convoluted. I'm still hesitant to believe that such hardware could have been developed in such a short amount of time. I handled SHA based ASIC devices somewhat similar in architecture to Bitcoin miners 5+ years ago, therefor it didn't come as a shock that it could be made to suit Bitcoin's needs.

I'll be watching your releases, but I doubt anyone that has been around for more than a year will be on board with the preorder scene. The BFL situation was a mess, and the Asic companies that went under taking their funds with them even worse. I have a hard time seeing this go more smoothly for you, but for your own sake and those that do choose to preorder, I wish you all the best of luck. There would have to be outstanding circumstance in order to get me to preorder anything.

That being said, I will have no trouble ordering after seeing you ship a batch out.

Let me know when you start offering those lapdances. I have many enemies and bitcoins.

Almost, not accepting Paypal or any other payment methods that one can chargeback with is the answer. Sadly, you can't not take paypal for a listing on Ebay.

When does the auction end? are you ok with escrow? and please post pics.

I'd be happy to, pms sent all around.

Yar, rather than fixing the profile picture issue, Theymos just went ahead and commissioned a complete overhaul with new forum software. I'd imagine that you will be able to upload avatars after its completion.

I don't think we need a seperate Vs. section, as just about every thread has some sort of Vs. Conflict going on.

I don't really see the problem, a lot of staff members advertise businesses. If they would personally recommend the business or service, I don't see why not put it in sig if they have the space. Cyrus is probably getting paid to have it in their sig, but that still shouldn't matter if they still like the site and would recommend it under normal circumstances, and even if not, as long as its not a currently known scam site that is going to steal someone's money, why not? Psy is a global moderator and has an advertisement in sig. Staff should be as neutral as possible in their moderation policies, but as far as what they decided to post on their profile, thats up to them in my opinion anyway.

Posts that actually posed questions to me were responded to via pm. If you wish to ask me questions, please do it via pm. If you want to start a conversation on the definition of freedom of speech, do so in off topic or politics and society.

neat, I like old outdated hardware, I just need to find more space to put it. If I see something come up that I can't live without, I might take you up on that offer.

Well I've got 24 boxes at the moment, but those will probably be gone by Monday.

Scratch that, I just did some measuring, and I don't think I have space for it.

agreed, its like a holocaust against flavor 

Whoever gets cookies, let me know, I need more.

nachius is before me, however if that falls through I'll take it.

If Ken wishes to abandon the thread to post in an unspammed topic, he is welcome to move it to Off Topic, and then people would be welcome to spam and yell at each other as much as they wish.

Anyway! If you have any questions, please feel free to pm me. I'm always happy to explain my positions, moderating policy, etc, as the day that I'm unable to adequetly explain my reasoning, is the day that I change it. I tend to leave self moderated topics alone, except for when they are getting swamped such as this one.

Referal links are generally acceptable if they are solicited. For example, if I was asking someone for information on Cryptsy, someone is welcome to give me information + their referal link. People just posting their referal links and nothing else, or no helpful information is quite annoying.

I too am interested (in U.S)

True, however there is far to much here for Ken to handle by himself. Quite honestly, I do find you somewhat entertaining, although you are a lead source of instigation here. I'd ask that you either stay at least somewhat on topic from now on, or please refrain from posting here. We will call it just an informal warning.

And to be completely fair, everyone is reporting everyone here. There are the pro active mining people who are reporting people who "slander" and the anti active mining people who are reporting people for a variety of other things. Its just a mess.

You are completely welcome to have your own opinions, you can insult people within reason, (30 word sentences of slurrs are not within reason) this thread should be for information about Active Mining, whether official or speculation. Its difficult reading any sort of updates or important announcements when 9 out of 10 posts are people fighting and posting off topic.

*edit* 17 posts here have been reported today, 13 of which were bad reports.